Ask HN: Why do tech companies and VCs not take part in the boycott of Israel?

Posted by brux on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:15PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Why do tech companies and VCs not take part in the BDS campaign against Israel?

More and more universities and companies in North America and Europe take part in this campaign.

More about the BDS movement:

http://www.bdsmovement.net/

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Re:Ask HN: Why do tech companies and VCs not take part in th... by kw71 on Monday May 11, 2015 @01:17PM (#9526266)

I thought it was illegal (in USA) to participate in the boycott against Israel. McMaster-Carr got fined for accepting po's whose terms said the product or its transportation were not to involve Israel or Israeli owned assets.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do tech companies and VCs not take part in th... by cafard on Monday May 11, 2015 @01:11PM (#9526222)

Because fashions change far more slowly in the business world than in academia? Because some of them are in fact pro-Zionist, or at least neutral in the matter? Because there is serious money to be made doing business with Israel?

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Re:Ask HN: Why do tech companies and VCs not take part in th... by eastsideatx on Monday May 11, 2015 @01:32PM (#9526385)

Likely because it's a terrible idea.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do tech companies and VCs not take part in th... by gaius on Monday May 11, 2015 @01:59PM (#9526583)

Flagged; flamebait.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do tech companies and VCs not take part in th... by joeclark77 on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:37PM (#9525986)

Because there's no profit in anti-semitism?

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Re:Ask HN: Why do tech companies and VCs not take part in th... by brux on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:48PM (#9526076)

It's pretty tiring to hear this "argument" again and again.

Boycotting Israel is not anti-semitism.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do tech companies and VCs not take part in th... by Enzolangellotti on Monday May 11, 2015 @01:56PM (#9526568)

Then what it is? You're boycotting a country because it's defending itself.

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